 Icke believes that the only way this 'Archontic' influence can be defeated is if people wake up to the truth and fill their hearts with love.Critics have accused Icke of being a Holocaust denier and antisemitic, with his theories about reptilians being a deliberate "code"; Icke denies these claims.The middle son of three boys born seven years apart, Icke was born in Leicester General Hospital to Beric Vaughan Icke and Barbara J. Icke, née Cooke, who were married in Leicester in 1951.